Resources

You are so lucky to be living in the age of the internet where there are all kinds of resources available to learn from! Below is a helpful list of books and websites that we have pulled together to get you started. If you know about a great educational resource, contact us and let us know about it so we can share it with others!

Recommended Websites

Instructor Cameron Canter told us about MIT offering free access to all their classes online! Lawrence, one of the site's regular users, states it well: "Your efforts enable ordinary people to access extraordinary knowledge."

Recommended Books

Dr. Ybarra has generously agreed to make the textbook for his ECE110 course at Duke freely available to the public! It's college level, but introductory. You can learn a tremendous amount from reading this, though the mathematics and some of the more advanced content will have to wait until you're older. (Mr. Dalton became an Electrical Engineer because at age 7 he was reading EE books intended for adults even though much of it was over his head. He is not a prodigy. You can do the exact same thing.)

Mr. Dalton doesn't know an electrical engineer who didn't at one point build a circuit from one of Mims' books. These are absolutely fabulous little books full of fun circuits to build. Combine these books with our Components Super Kit and you will have tons of cool things to make on your breadboard!

This is a college level textbook, however, it contains wonderful drawings of mechanisms like clutches, gears, transmissions, engine configurations, and all kinds of neat stuff. If you are an aspiring mechanical engineer, you will love this book! The material might be a little ahead of your time, but don't let that dissuade you. You can get copies of the older editions at very reasonable prices.